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1. What is Wayne Booth's position on the possibility of an author of fiction being invisible?
2. What are the three essential components of Lloyd Bitzer's rhetorical situation?
3. What quality did Mikhail Bakhtin find intriguing in the novels of Dostoevsky?
4. What is the ultimate goal of Jurgen Habermas' theorizing? What is communicative action?

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1. What is Wayne Booth's position on the possibility of an author of fiction being invisible?
Booth believes that the real feelings and thoughts of the author may be hidden from his readers of his writing. If the book has a narrator, then this is the compass that takes the reader in different directions of ideas away ...

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